Environmental policy and protocols

Climate change is increasingly a part of the human experience.

This book provides a theoretical framework and related technical skills for investigating climate change and its public health consequences and responses with a focus on urban settings, and in particular Hong Kong, a subtropical metropolis in Asia.

This book represents a landmark effort to probe and analyze the theory and empirics of designing water disaster management policies.

Financial schemes for flood recovery, if properly designed and implemented, might increase flood resilience.

Evaluation is a critical stage in urban and regional planning and development, with the consideration of alternative proposals essential for informed debate and decision.

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) and "e;negative emissions"e; technologies will play an essential role in mitigating the impact of global warming and meeting the temperature targets set by the IPCC and by COP21.

Revisiting the most important topic of our time.

Hundreds of million tonnes of agricultural and food waste are produced each year around the world, most of which is just that, waste.

Adopting an interdisciplinary social science approach, this book examines community reactions to wind farms to form a new understanding of what facilitates social acceptance.

Humanities for the Environment, or HfE, is an ambitious project that from 2013-2015 was funded by a generous grant from the Andrew W.

Baltimore, like many other cities around the globe, is redesigning local government policy and programs in order to become a more sustainable city.

This volume examines women and wildlife trafficking via a collection of narratives, case studies and theoretical syntheses from diverse voices and disciplines.

Deforestation in tropical rainforest countries is one of the largest contributors to human-induced climate change.

Minimising the most severe risks of climate change means ending societal dependence on fossil fuels, and radically improving the efficiency with which we use all energy sources.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal set of seventeen goals and 169 targets, with accompanying indicators, which were agreed by UN member states to frame their policy agendas for the fifteen-year period from 2015 to 2030.

It is now more than a decade since the Right to Food Guidelines were negotiated, agreed and adopted internationally by states.

As the supply/cost crunch tightens, issues related to energy become increasingly compelling.

Originally published in 1976, this study was undertaken to fill a gap in knowledge about non-fuel resources and the advantages and disadvantages of specific methodologies of analysing material modelling.

The local food movement is one of the most active of current civil engagement social movements.

This book focuses on Youth Climate Courts, a bold new tool that young people in their teens and twenties can use to compel their local city or county government to live up to its human rights obligations, formally acknowledge the climate crisis, and take major steps to address it.

This book presents stories of sustainability from communities in circumpolar regions as they grapple with environmental, economic and societal changes and challenges.

This volume outlines the specific conditions and responses to climate change in India.

Climate change is a cross-cutting, long-term, global problem that presents policymakers with many challenges in their efforts to respond to the issue.

This is the first examination of how China is currently dealing with environmental problems and challenges, and of its successes, failures and dilemmas.

This book analyses the evolution of the sustainability discourse in the European Union, exploring the conditions necessary for sustainable development to move from a conceptual model into a model for action for strategic decision makers at all levels of governance.

This edited book provides a broad collection of current critical reflections on heritage-making processes involving landscapes, positioning itself at the intersection of landscape and heritage studies.

Ports are a vital part of the global economy, connecting the world through maritime transport networks, promoting international trade, and supporting global economic growth.

The notion of Endangerment stands at the heart of a network of concepts, values and practices dealing with objects and beings considered threatened by extinction, and with the procedures aimed at preserving them.

Beyond Recycling critically explores unasked questions around recycling and its prominent position in contemporary thinking about sustainability.

Ethical Debates in Orangutan Conservation explores how conservationists decide whether, and how, to undertake rehabilitation and reintroduction (R&R) when rescuing orphaned orangutans.

As urban regions face the demand to decrease fossil fuel dependency, many cities in the developing world are undertaking initiatives designed to create a greener city by aiming for a more sustainable form of urban development and, to do so, they need to evaluate existing modes of transportation and patterns of land use.

The One Planet Life demonstrates a path for everyone towards a way of life in which we don't act as if we had more than one planet Earth.

This book deals with the main challenges of sustainable development and the role of sustainable business and corporate social responsibility in implementing these challenges through sustainable leadership and innovations.

The principal barrier to the introduction of more sustainable disposal methods has previously been thought to be the lack of both available knowledge and an awareness of the benefits and ease of these systems.

The global, regional, and local energy landscape has changed dramatically in the twenty-first century.

In anticipation of the UN Conference of the Law of the Sea taking place in 1973, Dr Kasahara and Dr Burke of the University of Washington first published North Pacific Fisheries Management earlier that year.

Environmental protection is a global issue.

This book shows how the Fukushima plaintiffs have challenged narratives of safety and risk containment produced by TEPCO and the Japanese government through offering new empirical data on risk perceptions and life choices of some nuclear evacuees.

This book focuses on one critical challenge: climate change.

By the turn of the millennium, it had become painfully apparent that the United States had made some serious misjudgments in its interactions with the natural world.

We have forgotten how to think about limits.

Dealing with time is intimately linked to sustainability, because sustainability, at its core, involves long-term ethical claims.

Can contemporary democratic governments tackle climate crisis?

The 2002 New Delhi Declaration of Principles of International Law relating to Sustainable Development set out seven principles on sustainable development, as agreed in treaties and soft-law instruments from before the 1992 Rio 'Earth Summit' UNCED, to the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development, to the 2012 Rio UNCSD.

This handbook provides comprehensive and critical coverage of the dynamic and complex relationship between democracy and sustainability in contemporary theory, discourse, and practice.

Southern Australia is one of the three most fire-prone areas on Earth.

Hydrogen could be a significant fuel of the future, with the potential to make a major contribution to the resolution of pressing social and environmental problems such as carbon emissions, energy security and local air pollution.

This book examines how current energy and water management processes affect Indigenous communities in North America, with a specific focus on Canada.

This book analyzes the energy security of the United States - its ability to obtain reliable, affordable, and sufficient supplies of energy while meeting the goals of achieving environmental sustainability and protecting national security.